The infamous Harvey Weinstein is reported to have kept Tulip Fever on the shelf for almost three years while it was edited to his satisfaction (the movie was the last released by Weinstein’s company before it was engulfed by scandal).

Tulip Fever is set in 1630s Amsterdam, a heavy-breathing hotbed of sex, money, sex, unhappy marriages, sex, phantom pregnancies, sex, blackmail, and then a little more sex.

Everyone is throwing their cash at an overheated flower trading market, as a rush on tulip bulbs goes into the red zone. Most are destined to lose their shirts, a fitting outcome for folks so fond of dropping their trousers.

How all of this could have been played so straight — and ended up so politely dull — will bend minds for years to come.